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GOG is doing much better than in 2022 (www.gog.com)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Gog is doing much better than in 2022. They are making 1.2M dollars in profit. Which is pretty good for such a platform personally. I really like the ideals of GOG, but haven't really used the platform a whole lot.

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I do not fucking understand this. You're never going to compete with Steam. But you have this niche of DRM free marketplace and you ignore the entire Linux community? A community that THRIVES on FOSS and DRM free software.

It's such an idiotic move to not develop a linux client. I will never fucking comprehend this.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Their apple support has always been pretty mixed at best. I always assumed they're the kind of gamers who are like "windows is for gaming, gamers use windows, sure you CAN do other things, but why would you?"

[–] RickRussell_CA 1 points 2 years ago

You mean support for native Mac games? Or support for cross-platform (e.g. running old Windows games on Mac)?

There are a lot of challenges in those solution spaces, not the least of which is that Apple has its own, pretty mature app store/games store for its own devices. So any native Mac game worth having is gonna start there.

By comparison, for most of the older DOS/Windows games that GoG supports, Steam is their only competitor (and arguably it's not even a competitor for many older titles). Meanwhile getting those games running on the Mac at all is a challenge, and even more of a challenge now that Apple has moved off x86 entirely.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

yeah, no idea what brain-headed move that is

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

On the bright side it runs really well installing it from Bottles